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At the recent MM09 conference, Ramesh and I got to talking about the problem of enhancing the conference attendance experience, producing live feeds from a conference that can be viewed remotely, and capturing artifacts from a conference for historical access. The purpose of this message is discuss some ideas and to solicit interest in participating in an experiment.
The background to the idea goes back to producing live webcasts from conference presentations and the effect that Twitter and Facebook are having. At MM09, Ramesh and I lamented that we could not early access material from the conference through our smart phones and laptops. For example, we could access the electronic proceedings but we couldn’t access slides from the various talks nor could we easily share pictures that different people took at the conference. Moreover, some of us created some FB tweets during the conference but the only people who saw them were “our friends.”
We discussed many ways to attack these problems, but eventually came up with the idea of setting up a server at the conference site with interfaces that allowed people to generate FB-like feeds and post slides, photos, and videos. The idea was that any presenter could post their slides after their talk, that anyone could post photos, and that we’d have a blog for discussions. We could also make this server available to people who are not at the conference – probably if they are SIGMM members.
Then, after the conference, take the server back home and upload the content to the SIGMM website as a document of the content developed during the conference. The presentations and blogs could be linked to the papers in the ACM DL and the photos could be linked to the event descriptions.
Eventually we’d like to capture more media live (e.g., audio, video, and rgb (for slides and demos)) and webcast it, but for now, doing this would provide a convenient way for people to communicate and contribute material to the conference archive.
We think this would be much better than having someone collect material and post it after the fact. In fact, if the server software was developed right you could synch it to the SIGMM website as the conference happens. The only issue is network bandwidth to the conference site.
SO, here’s my question/idea. Gene Golvchinsky and I were discussing this and it occurred to me the right way to work on this idea is to do an experiment with a real conference. I’m sending this to Ketan and Wu-chi since you are the Co-Chairs for MMSys 2010, and I was thinking that might be a good conference at which to do an experiment. FXPAL would be willing to contribute some money, hardware, and people to the experiment, but we need an academic partner and, of course, some graduate/undergraduates to help with the development and operation of the service.
What do you think?
Larry